Back in early March I wrote about the pending Eyjafjallajokull Volcano eruption. Little did I know it would come so soon; however, the question remains, what about KATLA? If you think things are bad now, wait until we have the neighboring volcano in Iceland blow its proverbial top. Let’s hope that doesn’t happen; however, with the current state of the solar system and our planet, the stakes are rising.

News report have entered into HYPERBOLE: The day the earth stood still!

A lingering volcanic ash plume forced extended no-fly restrictions over much of Europe on Saturday, as Icelandic scientists warned that volcanic activity had increased and showed no sign of abating — a portent of more travel chaos to come. Scientists say that because the volcano is situated below a glacial ice cap, the magma is being cooled quickly, causing explosions and plumes of grit that can be catastrophic to plane engines if prevailing winds are right.

“The activity has been quite vigorous overnight, causing the eruption column to grow,” Icelandic geologist Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson told The Associated Press on Saturday. “It’s the magma mixing with the water that creates the explosivity. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be an end in sight.” So, how long will air travel be suspended? No one knows. News flash- we’re not in control!

The Icelandic Meteorological Office said the amount of ash in the plume grew Saturday and that the vast ash cloud is continuing to travel south and southeast. Scientists had planned to fly over the volcano to see how much ice has melted to determine how much longer the eruption could spew ash, but the Icelandic Coast Guard said Saturday’s flight had been postponed.

Earthquakes are popping up (3.0+) in the dozens DAILY in the hot zones of Baja California, Chile, Indonesia, Alaska, and China. And as I write this there are no SUN SPOTS!

What’s going to happen when they begin appearing in increased frequency which is what’s going to happen? And, researchers are also worried about the Katla volcano which is situated almost 16 kms away from Eyjafjallajokull. It has been observed that both the volcanoes erupted together in 1612 and again from 1821 to 1823. According to the data that has been gathered over the years, it is believed that Katla can release far more material during an eruption than Eyjafjallajokull.

In other words, we might just be getting ready to see Katla awaken and we could be in for a cool summer and a very cold winter depending upon the amount of ash and sulfur thrown into the air for any extended period of time.

The earth is on the move and that which I am talking about isn’t good. From Iceland to Alaska things are heating up and being shaken up. We are obviously in a very unsettling era wherein our home base (planet earth) is going through some sort of reactionary period- but to what and why?

Eyjafjallajokull volcano? What is that, and can anyone pronounce it?

Iceland is preparing for an even more powerful and potentially destructive volcano after a small eruption at the weekend shot red-hot molten lava high into the sky. About 500 people were safely evacuated from the land close to the Eyjafjallajokull volcano, which is around 120 kilometres (75 miles) southeast of the capital, Reykjavik. The country’s two airports were closed for most of the day and transatlantic flights re-routed to avoid the risk of ash blocking visibility and destroying engines.

“Eyjafjallajokull has blown three times in the past thousand years: in 920, in 1612 and between 1821 and 1823. Each time it set off Katla.” The likelihood of Katla blowing could become clear “in a few weeks or a few months”, he said.

Iceland is built on a volcanic rock on the Atlantic’s mid-oceanic ridge and it has grown used to eruptions. The southern village of Vik, close to the current eruption, has for centuries had an escape plan in which everybody runs up to the church, which is built on high ground. They know that if Katla erupts flooding will follow. What a way to live!

On the other side of the rock (earth), we’re seeing the ring of fire flaring up more and more around Alaska. We’re talking earthquakes here, not volcanoes.

A 4.6 earthquake 72 miles E of Chignik, Alaska is just the latest in a strong of shakers for Alaska. A total of EIGHT earthquakes have hit the Alaskan territory in the last seventy two hours. Three have been in the 3+ range, four in the 4+ range and one yesterday was 5.1. What’s going on? Does anyone know?

Oh yes, and 5.3 near Easter Island today as well.

Are we being set up for some really BIG ONES in the weeks and months ahead? As you know from my previous posts, we may very well be looking at a half dozen MAJOR earthquakes for the rest of 2010 that will do such damage as to make the Haiti-Chile earthquakes look tame.

Everyone who knows anything about volcanoes and earthquakes is aware of the potentially earth destroying capability of the Yellowstone Super Volcano. Yellowstone could do what the Toba Super Volcano did some 70,000 years ago: throw the planet into an ice age that lasted close to 60,000 years and destroy 90-98% of the world’s population. Those are not wild speculations but reality. No one wants to think about it of course; however, Yellowstone may be leaving a calling card for us.

Over the last few months things have been heating up in our famous National Park and none of it is good.

Over eight days, more than 1,270 mostly tiny earthquakes have struck between Old Faithful and West Yellowstone. The strongest dozen or so have ranged between magnitudes 3.0 and 3.8. These are beginning to become serious in size, as a growing swarm of course, but the vast majority have been too weak to be felt even nearby.

Online chatter about an imminent volcanic eruption in Yellowstone hasn’t really picked up compared with the attention that a similar quake swarm drew just over a year ago. But here I am chatting!

“Perhaps we have done a better job in the past year or so helping the public understand that earthquake swarms are not unusual in Yellowstone,” park spokesman Al Nash said Monday. That said, taken together as a whole, this represents the SECOND greatest and largest swarm in history. The largest quakes in the current swarm have included two of magnitude 3.1 and one of magnitude 3.0 late Sunday and early Monday, according to the University of Utah, which helps monitor seismic activity in Yellowstone.

Take note: one of the world’s largest volcanoes slumbers at the core of Yellowstone.

The volcano last had a caldera-forming eruption 640,000 years ago and last spewed lava 70,000 years ago, which means it could have erupted along with the Toba super volcano. Geologists say Yellowstone could erupt again, although the probability of an eruption within anyone’s lifetime is extremely low! I like those odds, but with all the weird things going on in the physical world these days, who knows?

Relatively mundane fault slippage is believed to be causing the latest quakes, said Jamie Farrell, a researcher at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Not that the swarm isn’t interesting to geologists – quite the opposite. “It gives us an opportunity to maybe get a better idea of what the processes are that are causing the earthquakes we’re seeing,” Farrell said. “Hopefully, each time we get one of these, we can get maybe a little better idea of what’s going on down there.”

I’m glad someone is watching because we may be getting a wake-up call; however, if we are, does anyone know what in the world we could do about it anyway?